Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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  • Substitution
  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

Regular Expression
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gms

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use strict; my $str = 'processors => {"models"=>["AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172", "AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172", "AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172", "AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172"], "count"=>4, "physicalcount"=>2} productname => VMware Virtual Platform ps => ps -ef puppetversion => 3.6.2 rubysitedir => /usr/local/brs/harmony-puppet/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1.0 rubyversion => 2.1.2 sshecdsakey => AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBNDUmg8FQGCO/r/VGABUPwBqT8zTwzXwZCjTdBC6cXj1Mo5ypxuqO1Qtwg9uQagcS5eLNbv+SxHotpzYSXZ1R8g= sshfp_dsa => SSHFP 2 1 42ffbd293f1501c0718b2b7b3852542329da1758 SSHFP 2 2 eb52d78a34bdadecc41b38366a5580c923bbb6cd0b81cec76de6379ce4251439 sshfp_ecdsa => SSHFP 3 1 d41abd2e3aff846b4efb59dbc8e4803875d33130 SSHFP 3 2 ae77a20a66859976e06efb7d6dd0819db4f9e9d93bc55da52a4bffff6acb1baa sshfp_rsa => SSHFP 1 1 d3f14587683138e6d10cacba92fa34364ed5d326 SSHFP 1 2 132856925e056d02767e6c6ca4015ed21ac4c6eddb727f7c69e5edecb8806884 sshrsakey => AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDzcJ6158aIkY161vcDH6WKNgKAeUsxrHh+HJH9IEistcV2TUJSdHtG/p5peI+cTa0EhabbNw8ToUU3ZWYmiTmxxuZzxggAxCx6xhWNDgC/492QnouxHnqjxwpFyIYnLpdbaMRV/6t9iE7v09Gfb31TS3/DbAUh5yla1OOeHbxJQ/eUOUYgy7/6eFL43+R9SfiuP11VRK8r325mCOFaPqw8VuNeGul/rMnccBCbuFvgmQnfOo/ldwrfOL2W4qAvfE0bKyG13WrDSlauo+CFtYqDK08hCItjrbVKgVrOzLCuKGzKFuqOgF3u8Q1je23qu7eUmF7lZPYVWSEpkh0xlR0p swapfree => 1.45 GB swapfree_mb => 1482.82 swapsize => 1.46 GB swapsize_mb => 1497.00 system_uptime => {"seconds"=>6034301, "hours"=>1676, "days"=>69, "uptime"=>"69 days"} timezone => PDT'; my $regex = qr/^(\w+) => (.*?)(?=(?:\s^\w+ =>|\z))/msp; if ( $str =~ /$regex/g ) { print "Whole match is ${^MATCH} and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[0] and \$+[0]\n"; # print "Capture Group 1 is $1 and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[1] and \$+[1]\n"; # print "Capture Group 2 is $2 ... and so on\n"; } # ${^POSTMATCH} and ${^PREMATCH} are also available with the use of '/p' # Named capture groups can be called via $+{name}

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Perl, please visit: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html